List of RTOS for Arduino and their current activity state
Category Archives: Engineering
piece parts
Monday, November 2, 2009
avrdude: http://www.bsdhome.com/avrdude/ This is the application that loads a program onto the atmega328. It has two modes, a direct program mode and ‘special’ mode that makes use of an on board (the atmega chip) boot loader. example of a command line avrdude that loads a hex file using the arduino bootloader This works from the [...]
Rockets and Airplanes
Friday, October 30, 2009
My Pop was a fireworks fanatic. Summer would arrive and with it, Pop would bring boxes of fireworks home. There were lots of different sizes from little finger crackers to m80 bombs. My favorite fireworks were the rockets. Of the rockets, bottle rockets were my raw materials to build things. Lots of things. I, of [...]
Pith balls and cat hair
Sunday, October 4, 2009
From physics books to electricity. Magnetism could move things at a distance. The physics I was reading taught me that only metals and then just certian metals were magnetic. But all metals could conduct electricity. Electricity was a lot like magnetism. They both had fields but electric fields were much less strong, or so it [...]
Magnets and Machines
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Moving things without touching them. How cool is that. Do you remember your first magnet? Mine was a horseshoe magnet. The ends were bare metal and the horse shoe handle was bright red. It came with a little metal rod which you could pick up by holding the horse shoe close to it. Not only [...]
My first engineering memories
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
What was the first thing you took apart or built?
